milos-garden:

Thank you for the most gracious offer!

However, I am growing these for sale as native plants. While technically the same species as the ones that grow here I can’t use them.

Different populations of plants across their distribution can develop genetic differences, even forming recognizable sub-species. As well many seeds are selected over generations to form stable strains with features that don’t exist in our local populations.

All my native plants are from seed I have hand collected in the area or ordered from collections made within the province.

Unfortunately the term ‘native’ is often used broadly to describe any species that grows in NA. Plants sold this way, grown from seed sourced from different areas, actually represent a loss of biodiversity because they’re introducing foreign genes into distinctive local populations.

I had forgotten that milosgarden had the same native plant purism as I’ve attempted to accomplish ;n;